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USE 2017: Resolve to Be There

Welcome to a new year. Are you ready to set your resolutions for this year? How about starting by learning more about the international Understanding Small Enterprises (USE) Conference, which is being held in the U.S. for the first time this coming October 25-27, 2017. NIOSH is collaborating with the Center for Health, Work & Environment at the Colorado School of Public Health to host USE 2017.

Small business owners, researchers, public health professionals, and students from around the world will come together in Denver to discuss the unique needs of small businesses and share strategies for cultivating healthy work environments.

The conference’s theme is “Worker Well-being and Sustainable Business Health: From Ideas to Achievable Reality.” Topics for sessions and workshops include:

Occupational Safety, Health, and Well-being

Diversity and Inclusion

The Business Case – A safe workplace is a productive workplace

Public–Private Partnerships

Check out the schedule and speakers on the conference website. We are excited about the program and the opportunity to carry on the great tradition set by the previous conference hosts in The Netherlands, New Zealand, and Denmark.

We are still accepting abstracts (the deadline is January 15). **Note deadline extended to January 31.**

This year, make a few of your resolutions work-related. This conference will help you fulfill them. We’ve provided a few suggestions below to help get you started:

Learn about the latest research on safety and health in small businesses

Network with industry experts from across the globe

Get in-depth training on how to bring safety and wellness to work

Build lasting connections in the small business safety and health community

Most importantly – Share your research, innovation, or best practice!

We promise that these resolutions will be much more fulfilling than losing those stubborn 5 pounds and help you improve your workplace in the process.

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USE 2017 will be one of the greatest conferences addressing the various aspects of small scale business development. It is indeed a fact that technology has gained significant importance where connecting the concepts of business development with those of modern day internet marketing is of paramount importance. From striving to get professional content writing services from expert writers up to pushing the limits of reaching maximum target audience by integrating the brand via social media platforms; businesses have really adapted the fastest ways to market themselves better. I hope the conference will be a great value addition for all sorts of startups and small scale businesses.

USE 2017 will be one of the greatest conferences addressing the various aspects of small scale business development. It is indeed a fact that technology has gained significant importance where connecting the concepts of business development with those of modern day internet marketing is of paramount importance.
The Business Case – A safe workplace is a productive workplace is real importance! Very good!

Thank you for the complete information. Small businesses are the backbone of our country. We start afew years a small company and one of the first think we try to manage is healthy working environment.

Nice article, thanks! The topics for this conference seems really interesting and important, personally I’m interested in small html business too. I hope that I will be able to take a part in such conference for next year, the ideas and strategies here seems useful for my work too 🙂 And yeah, safety and health are really important in this case.

Nice article, thanks! The topics for this conference seems really interesting and important, personally I’m interested in small html business too. I hope that I will be able to take a part in such conference for next year, the ideas and strategies here seems useful for my work too And yeah, safety and health are really important in this case.

The Understanding Small Enterprises (USE) conference has no governing body. Currently, the next proposed host is determining the feasibility of staging this event and has not yet set a 2019 date. While NIOSH will not be co-hosting the USE Conference this time around, we plan to support our colleagues who are organizing the conference. When details for the next conference are confirmed, we will post a link to the conference web site. Thank you for your interest!

Nice article, thanks! The topics for this conference seems really interesting and important, personally I’m interested in small html business too. I hope that I will be able to take a part in such conference for next year, the ideas and strategies here seems useful for my work too And yeah, safety and health are really important in this case.

Decent article, much appreciated! The subjects for this meeting appears to be extremely fascinating and critical, by and by I’m keen on little html business as well. I trust that I will have the capacity to take a section in such meeting for one year from now, the thoughts and procedures here appears to be helpful for my work too And better believe it, security and well being are extremely vital for this situation.

does anyone know where we can get notes from this use 2017 conference as topics look very good for small business owners? or when next use conference will be held?
i just started my own Neoprene Bag Business so i have alot to learn on small business etc

The conference proceedings from USE2017 are now available on the NIOSH website. In addition, The Annals of Work Exposure and Health published a special issue on the conference. There was not a 2018 conference. We are still awaiting information about the next edition of the Understanding Small Enterprises Conference. We will share the dates and location when we learn them.

Decent article, much appreciated! The subjects for this meeting appears to be extremely fascinating and critical, by and by I’m keen on little html business as well. I trust that I will have the capacity to take a section in such meeting for one year from now, the thoughts and procedures here appears to be helpful for my work too And better believe it, security and well being are extremely vital for this situation.

Decent article, much appreciated! The subjects for this meeting appears to be extremely fascinating and critical, by and by I’m keen on little HTML business as well. I trust that I will have the capacity to take a section in such meeting for one year from now, the thoughts and procedures here appears to be helpful for my work too And better believe it, security and well being are extremely vital for this situation.

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